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Psystar files suit against Apple in Florida - What Are They Thinking?

By Pamela Jones et al.

Psystar has filed suit against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami, asking for a declaratory judgment that it's legal for them to sell Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard on their nonApple hardware. I know. There is already litigation between these parties in California. What are they thinking?

They are thinking they'll sue in Florida over Snow Leopard, instead of Mac OSX Leopard. Get it? It's entirely different, they claim, technically and legally.

But that's not what it's really about, in my view. What it's about now, stage front and center, is what I told you I suspected the California litigation was really about: it's about first sale. This is, then, I believe, a legal effort to destroy the GPL. This is the second such effort. SCO was the first. Somebody really, really wants to destroy the GPL, not just Apple's business reputation.

Full post as published by Groklaw on August 29, 2009 (boomark / email).